Bridges to somewhere

By Mark Gordon
| 7:24 a.m. March 28, 2014

Strategies

Real estate developer Jim Bridges financed the first phase of his first project, a shopping center he built in 1975 in a small west-central Georgia town, with $500 on a Visa card.

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